Elizabeth Nee

A bunch of bobbins of spun singles. The ones oriented vertically (from top to bottom, a row of 3 plastic storage bobbins, another row of 3 plastic storage bobbins, and a row of two wooden spinning wheel bobbins) are from an in-progress combospin of 3 green-dominated colorways dyed by Southern Cross fibers. They are mostly shades of green with some brown and teal. On the left are 4 storage bobbins oriented horizontally. They contain leftover singles from past spinning projects. They all have some green to them, but they are either paler or more grey than the main project.

#SundaysAreForSpinning : I have 8 spun bobbins of singles for my green combo spun. I thought I’d finish the final one today, but it didn’t quite happen.
On the left are leftover bobbins of vaguely green singles that I may add in as I run out during plying. #Handspinning

A flat lay of 3 knitting projects in progress. The largest is a slipover knit in brioche stitch. Every 6 rows, the brk and the brp switch places. The yarn is a DK farm yarn made from a brown Cormo named Hershey. The pattern is Biscuit Slipover by Bridget Zhou. On top of it is of a child sweater (Compass by Tin Can Knits) with a colorwork yoke being knit with a dark red (super old Louet Gems Sportweight) and white (undyed KnitPicks High Desert Sport). To the right is the start of a Christmas stocking knit in two shade of blue and light grey. I’m winging the pattern as I go, using colorwork patterns from other patterns and stitch dictionaries. Yarn is Plymouth Yarns Encore.

#WIPWednesday : I joined the sleeves on this slipover, but haven’t done anything since. I frogged and restarted the colorwork sweater (I made an error that meant I had two fewer pattern repeats than needed) and started a Christmas stocking. Details in alt text. #KnitSky #Knitting 🧶

Of course, “dyed,” not “died.” I only noticed after I hit the post button.

2 skeins of golden brown handspun yarn. The larger one is a true 3-ply and was skeined on a 2-yard niddy-noddy. The smaller skein was chain-plied with leftovers and was sound onto a 1-yard niddy noddy. The fiber was a Mellyknits blend of 75% Bond, 20% alpaca, and muga silk.

A skein of handspun yarn. It appears mostly off-white, but in-person one can see darker fibers blended throughout. Spun as a 2-ply from a Mellyknits Sommelier batt. The batt was a blend of 75% Deboulliet, 15% Castledale, and 10% cashgora.

A skein of handspun yarn. It’s noticeably thicker than the other yarns. Also spun as a 2-ply from a Mellyknits Sommelier batt. This was a blend of 60% Sarah, Romney X Corriedale, 20% Clun Forest X, and 20% sari silk.

3 plastic storage bobbins with handspun singles. The yarns are mostly shades of green, with a bit of brown and a tiny bit of teal.

I’d gotten out of the habit of posting on #SundaysAreForSpinning . I spun up a few more @mellyknits.bsky.social Sommelier batts (including some practice at spinning thicker than usual with the blue yar ), and started a combo spin in green with fiber died by Southern Cross.

Yeah, I was puzzled when I read that Phytophthora use cellulose in their cell walls instead of chitin. I also didn’t know until last night that a different species was the cause of the Irish potato famine (I always thought it was some fungus).

And that’s how I learned that what I had been taught was the kingdom Protista is now considered a paraphyletic grouping

Screenshot of the scientific classification of the plant pathogen Phytophtherora ramorum from Wikipedia. Domain: Eukaryota Clade: Sar Clade: Stramenopiles Clade: Pseudofungi Phylum: Oomycota Class: Oomycetes Order: Peronosporales Family: Peronosporaceae Genus: Phytophthora Species: P. ramorum Binomial name: Phytophthora ramorum Werres et al. 2001

Me reading a Strib article describing a pathogen as “isn’t a fungus but is closely related to one” and saying “then what the fuck is it?” Also me, after looking it up on Wikipedia “oh, that’s why they described it that way.” And also thinking “what the fuck is the SAR clade?”

The a knit slipover in progress. It is brown and knit in brioche stitch. Every 6 rows, the brk and the brp switch places. The yarn is a DK farm yarn made from a brown Cormo named Hershey (who I have met). The pattern is Biscuit Slipover by Bridget Zhou. On the bottom is the front piece, which is complete. The shoulder stitches are still live. The back piece is nearly finished.

#WIPWednesday : I haven’t felt much like knitting this past week, but I am closing in on the end of this slipover. Pattern details in the alt text. #Knitting #Knitsky 🧶

Slipover, damn it

The a knit slipover in progress. It is brown and knit in brioche stitch. Every 6 rows, the brk and the brp switch places. The yarn is a DK farm yarn made from a brown Cormo named Hershey (who I have met). The pattern is Biscuit Slipover by Bridget Zhou. On the bottom is the front piece, which is complete. The shoulder stitches are still live. The back piece, which is about halfway between the underarm increases and shoulder shaping, is placed on top of it.

#WIPWednesday : still working on the slipcover. I had to rip back the I underarm increases a few times, which means I will not finish before the 31 Oct #OctobervestMAL deadline. #Knitsky #Knitting 🧶

I miss message boards for discussing TV shows (I spent my time on Television Without Pity). YouTube and social media reactions just aren’t the same.

Abcnews graphic: surreal moment as coyote drinks water from skylight window on top of Los Angeles hair salon (Image of exactly that, except the framing is canted and as a result it looks like a coyote imprisoned in a glass square a la the phantom zone from Superman)

I understand why they had to stop him but I don’t agree with imprisoning him in the phantom zone

I populated the alt text but didn’t put anything in the post. This was last night’s #WIPWednesday entry. I finished the front of my Biscuit slipover and started the back. #KnitSky 🧶

The a knit slipover in progress. It is brown and knit in brioche stitch. Every 6 rows, the brk and the brp switch places. The yarn is a DK farm yarn made from a brown Cormo named Hershey (who I have met). The pattern is Biscuit Slipover by Bridget Zhou. On the bottom is the front piece, which is complete. The shoulder stitches are still live. The back piece, which has not yet reached the underarm increases, is placed on top of it.

Three wooden spinning wheel bobbins with golden brown spun singles. The batt was from Mellyknits and is 75% Bond, 20% alpaca, 5% muga silk

A day late for #SundaysAreForSpinning . I brought fiber and am espinner with me on our MEA weekend roadtrip, but didn’t do any spinning while traveling. I did spin up the last bobbin of these singles when we got back yesterday. #Handspinning 🧶

That was exactly what was going through my head when I saw the headline.

The front piece of a knit slipover. It is brown and knit in brioche stitch. Every 6 rows, the brk and the brp switch places. The yarn is a DK farm yarn made from a brown Cormo named Hershey (who I have met). The pattern is Biscuit Slipover by Bridget Zhou. I’ve finished the underarm increases, which gives it a T shape.

#WIPWednesday : Last night, I had reached the neckline shaping on the front of this slipover. But then I noticed a mistake several rows down. I tried to ladder down to fix it, but it was easier just to front it. #Knitting #KnitSky 🧶

In short, one can be attractive and still be pathetic and evil. To quote Okkervil River, “Looking for evil, thinking they can trace it, but/
Evil don't look like anything”

It was similar to what Antony Starr (another handsome man playing an absolute shitty character) does, where you can see the light go out behind his eyes and the pasted on smile. Absolutely terrifying.

What, that you can’t be a villain and be attractive? That’s bullshit. I thought Egerton did a great job in the role—I loathed him. I had to be in the right mindset to watch episodes, because he disgusted me so much

But considering they gave Ntare Guma Mbaho Mwine, another objectively handsome man, some sort of prosthesis to turn him into a literal mouth-breather, it sends an unfortunate message

The twist that Dave Gudsen was a heftier, schubbiet guy, rather than the slinger and handsome Taron Egerton was dumb. I mean, I get that they were trying to show how Gudsen was fantasizing that he was better looking and “more masculine”

We finished the Apple TV series “Smoke” last night. And I have thoughts on the ending. Spoilers ahead…

Two wooden spinning wheel bobbins with golden brown spun singles, plus a batt of unspun fiber. The batt was from Mellyknits and is 75% Bond, 20% alpaca, 5% muga silk.

A skein of 2 ply handspun yarn. The fiber is Rambouillet and it was naturally dyed by Petal & Hank into different shades of purple. The colors were spun separately and then plied together.

Washed (and in one case, dyed) locks of wool ready for processing. In the back is Dorset. The locks are white, matte, blocky, with a tight crimp. On the lower left is a BFL cross. The locks have dark tips (it was a lamb, so is this the fleece it was born with), but the rest is either ivory or a pale pale grey. They have a sheen and are more curly than crimpy. On the lower right are Polypay x merino locks dyed in shades of green.

Two rolled up batts of carded fleece. They are still a bit streaky in shades of green.

#SundaysAreForSpinning and I’ve had more interest/motivation in spinning than I have in a while. I spun up 2 bobbins of singles, skeined and washed last week’s yarn, and started a new carding project. #Handspinning 🧶

I heard no opinion from him. Thanks for the compliment!

Flat lay of 2 knitting projects in progress. The larger is brown and knit in brioche stitch. Every 6 rows, the brk and the brp switch places. The yarn is a DK farm yarn made from a brown Cormo named Hershey (who I have met). The pattern is Biscuit Slipover by Bridget Zhou. I’ve recently finished the underarm increases. Also included is the start of a top (Flow by Trin-Annelie). It started with 1x1 twisted ribbing for the collar, and then the pattern moved into cables, which periodically get wider as the circular yoke increases are added. I’ve separated the body from the sleeves—the remainder is worked in reverse stockinette. It’s knit with a light blue fingering weight 50/50 blend of cotton and superwash merino, dyed by Fiber MacGyver in the colorway “Bahama.”

I forgot to post for yesterday’s #WIPWednesday. I’ve spent most of my time working on the slipover—I should be close to starting the neckline shaping. I’ve slowed on the blue top—I should try it on to see if I want to add waist shaping. Patterns and yarns in alt text. #Knitsky #Knitting 🧶

A 3-D printed spinning wheel bobbin (for a Lendrum using a WooLee Winder) full to the brim of a 2-ply yarn. Both plies are Rambouillet naturally dyed in 2 different shades of purple. Also shown is a different, larger 3D printed spinning wheel bobbin (for a Daedalus Starling espinner showing all that remains of the singles I had more of. I didn’t measure it out, but it is probably a few yards at most.

#SundaysAreForSpinning : I finished my first #Handspinning project in a whole. Rambouillet naturally dyed by @petalandhank.bsky.social in two different shades of purple. Spun separately and then plied together. #HandspunYarn 🧶

This afternoon we learned that our oldest put a carton of choc. milk in his backpack (maybe on Thursday?), and that it leaked all over the contents of his backpack. The fact that the dog kept sniffing and licking the bag should’ve tipped us off sooner. At least the electronics were ok.

I did, only because 1) my dad is from Richland County 2) he has an interest in geology (he did amateur spelunking in college) and 3) he’s taken me the the UW Geology Museum

I stumbled across the concept of “blindsight” on Wikipedia. It’s a when people have a form of brain damage that destroys their primary visual cortex (rendering them blind), but they show behaviors that indicate that some unconscious parts of their brain are still processing visual input. Fascinating